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enabling act

a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization, often a government minister.

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Second, the four enabling acts condition project approvals on

The evolution of Virginia's public-private partnership enabling statutes

Although most state conservation easement enabling acts define

Enforcing perpetual conservation easements against third-party violators

The commercial and civil jurisdiction of SAT involves a wide range of enabling Acts that previously fell within the jurisdiction of the magistrate and district courts and other tribunals.

Burden of proof and standard of proof in the WA state administrative tribunal - a case of horses for courses

Enabling Act, and those enabling acts that followed, actually created a

State trust lands: static management and shifting value perspectives

The second type, which I will call enabling acts, serve to facilitate this conveyance.

General semantics and communication in court judgments

In Colorado's 1875 Enabling Act, Congress rejected the idea of directly granting land to townships for school sites, and instead insisted that: the trust land be vested in the state as a trustee; the state establish a permanent fund; and that the fund be managed for profit.

Managing Montana's trust lands

Although the criminal and civil rules enabling acts were not merged until 1988, see Judicial Improvements and Access to Justice Act, Pub.

The paradox of delegation: interpreting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

The state zoning enabling acts specifically provide express authority to municipalities to adopt zoning regulations for regulating land development.

Local Communities Versus the Mobile Home Park: The Battle Continues in Michigan

Perhaps agency enabling acts also resemble a constitution.

Enterpreting agency enabling acts: misplaced metaphors in administrative law

In its supporting arguments, the Washington Supreme Court stated, "In Washington, local governments are free to preserve, limit, or terminate nonconforming uses subject only to the broad limits of applicable enabling acts and the constitution.

Nonconforming-use peat mine subject to "police powers."

Furthermore, and most important for our purposes, state efforts to move into the internal political and economic affairs of tribal nations within their borders appears to violate the Indian disclaimer clauses that 11 Western states (Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3) were required by the federal government to include in their territorial acts, enabling acts, and constitutions.

Tribal-state affairs: American states as 'disclaiming' sovereigns

State statutes such as the Mello Act in California, which stimulated local legislation by liberalizing rules, and comprehensive redrafting of the state zoning enabling acts, which provide the legal authority for local zoning restrictions.